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Following the National Book Award finalist Look, Sharif's second collection is alternately scathing, funny, resigned, and transcendent. Her poems interrogate the bonds of social performance and the bureaucratic language of power ("Studies suggest it's best not to mention problem in front of power even to say there is none"), then invert that lens on poetry itself, as in the tellingly titled "Patronage": "Poets convinced they ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More